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Ballads of Square-Toed Americans

Robert Peter Tristram Coffin

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"Ballads of Square-Toed Americans," Robert P. Tristram Coffin’s fifth book of poetry, is a collection of vigorous poems celebrating American pioneers and telling with grim humor, stories of the bravery of the early settlers. A legendary New Englander, Coffin wrote poetry that was committed to cheerful depiction of the good in the world. Often drawing on his own experience, his most characteristic works were poems and stories that endowed common events in the lives of ordinary people with epic proportion and mythic dimension. He regarded poetry as a public function that should speak well of life so that people might find inspiration.

Language: English

Pages: 110

Format: Hardcover

Release: September 01, 1933

Ballads of Square-Toed Americans

Robert Peter Tristram Coffin

0/5 ( ratings)

"Ballads of Square-Toed Americans," Robert P. Tristram Coffin’s fifth book of poetry, is a collection of vigorous poems celebrating American pioneers and telling with grim humor, stories of the bravery of the early settlers. A legendary New Englander, Coffin wrote poetry that was committed to cheerful depiction of the good in the world. Often drawing on his own experience, his most characteristic works were poems and stories that endowed common events in the lives of ordinary people with epic proportion and mythic dimension. He regarded poetry as a public function that should speak well of life so that people might find inspiration.

Language: English

Pages: 110

Format: Hardcover

Release: September 01, 1933

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